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One of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies has warned lawmakers that
electronic cigarettes could act as a “gateway to tobacco” .

The leaked correspondence from GlaxoSmithKline, whose nicotine patches, gums
and lozenges are being undermined by the burgeoning e-cigarette market,
reveals the opposition from the pharmaceutical industry to impending
regulation of e-cigarettes across the European Union.

The pharmaceutical industry wants medicines licences to be mandatory for
e-cigarettes, as they are for nicotine products. Instead, the EU is set to
introduce a system in which e-cigarette companies can opt in for medicines
regulation or be regulated in a similar way to traditional